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1st place Young Photographer of the Year

Cruz Erdmann Maldives

1°54'26.9"N 73°25'58.0"E

The silky tentacles of a brightly coloured magnificent anemone sway in surging water, exposing a Maldivian anemone fish, an endemic species only found in the atolls of the Maldives. “This photo was taken in time with the surge of waves breaking overhead,” says photographer Cruz Erdmann, “just as the tentacles of the anemone revealed the full body of the anemone fish.”

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Young Ocean Photographer of the Year, Cruz Erdmann

Cruz Erdmann United States (US)

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ABOUT THE IMAGE

  • Captured while scuba diving
  • Constant surge overhead
  • Late morning
  • Sunny, light breeze

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